Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Canadian men’s volleyball star Gavin Schmitt has announced his retirement from the national team after helping the country to a quarter-final berth at the Olympic Games. The six-foot-10...

VANCOUVER - Three groups that were once labelled enemies of the province by a British Columbia premier have been given an international award for their work in helping to protect the Great Bear Rainfo...

OTTAWA - Nunavut officials are questioning whether researchers who found HMS Terror had proper authorization to search for the doomed Franklin Expedition ship, prompting the explorers to wonder if the...

TORONTO - Morgan Rielly isn’t sleeping more or eating differently, save for a few extra salads. Life as the Maple Leafs’ No. 1 defenceman has required only subtle adjustments for the 22-ye...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man says he expected he would get a call someday about the death of his 99-year-old mother - but not one that would turn out to be a mistake. Dan Nemis says his mother, Sophie, w...

CALGARY - A unit that reviews police actions in Alberta is alleging that officers broke a man’s ribs and caused his lung to collapse and lied about him resisting arrest. Susan Hughson of the Alb...

LONDON - The head of WADA’s athlete commission contends the global anti-doping system is not “broken” and laments that politics surrounding the Russian doping scandal has sown “...

TORONTO - Adam van Koeverden has paddled for the better part of two decades with the single-minded focus required of the world’s best athletes. Now he says it’s time to look beyond himself...

MONTREAL - Georges St-Pierre just smiled when asked Wednesday about taunts from UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping. “I like that, it’s good to feel the love,” the 35-year-old ...

OTTAWA - Despite having originally denied their existence, the federal Indigenous Affairs Department said Wednesday it will give the parliamentary budget office a collection of documents relevant to F...